Recent content by lulu

The friendliest place on the web for anyone that enjoys cooking.
If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.
  1. lulu

    Dinner Tuesday 9th April 2013

    Using up the ham leftovers I have made a very loosely adherent version of fidget pie (Regional food: Shropshire fidget pie | Countryfile.com) No cider, but some white wine instead, and its a pot pie with a puff pastry top rather than a pastry pie with a mashed potato top. Odds and ends of...
  2. lulu

    Dinner Sunday 7th April 2013

    Love vegetarian Indian food. Yum. For us its roast chicken (with a lemon and lots of tarragon inside) with its lovely citrusy jus and a salad of ribboned courgette, lots and lots of shredded mint, baby broad beans, perks pois and avocado, dressed with more lemon and some EVOO. There was...
  3. lulu

    Dinner Friday 5th April 2013

    Friday nights are always special, dh is a away during the week. But I rarely know when he will be home, it could be seven pm or it could be after midnight. I have an elderly parent living with us too, so often end up making something dh can have later. I'm boiling a ham in cola and serving it...
  4. lulu

    How do YOU make your stuffed peppers?

    I add rice to the mince, to make it lighter, and I choose lamb mince usually. I also tend to use a lot of middle eastern or North African sort of flavours, so some dried fruit,..apricots, prunes perhaps, ras al hangout or perhaps just some cumin and cinnamon. I also love peppers stuffed...
  5. lulu

    Dinner Saturday 30th March 2013

    Left over cauliflower cheese from yesterday, but also ribeye steaks and some broccoli. Not too hungry but its a special occasion so we will probably have a cocktail before and a digestif after.
  6. lulu

    What have you had for lunch lately?

    Lunches have been very seafood orientated recently. Today was prawns, yesterday was seafood salad (that was delicious) more humdrum days have been not very nice fish sticks. Not sure why I bought them. Oh, and marinated anchovies, I love these, they pack so much flavour. Other days...
  7. lulu

    Dinner Friday, March 29th 2013

    Really tempted by the Indian food! After a change in plans here my husband has requested cauliflower cheese. We usually like to have this with beef, but I have chicken in the fridge. To stop in being too samey and 'pale tasting' I have marinated the chicken in lots of garlic. My fridge is...
  8. lulu

    What is your weather like right now?

    Well, it three degrees celcius here today, but it was not enough to thaw the water troughs for our animals after a prolonged cold snap. Turned the water mains on in hope, but no hope. We have enough for a couple more days in the troughs, and its meant to be milder this weekend, so should be...
  9. lulu

    Dinner Thursday 28th March 2013

    Sausage and mash sounds delicious, more appropriate for our weather here today than oysters tbh. (It hit 3 celcius today and our central heating isn't working):ermm: My dh loves fresh fruit, raw veg, all sorts of fish.....all the things some people complain about their partners not eating...
  10. lulu

    Dinner Thursday 28th March 2013

    My husband is home tonight too. :) I was in the nearest town with a fishmonger earlier and stopped to pick up some oysters. They had two different types, so I got six of each to compare tastes. The smaller half dozen should taste more 'mineral-y'. I have a bottle of a very nice prosecco...
  11. lulu

    Does any one else on Discuss Cooking practice intermittent fasting?

    A lot of the initial research centred around total fasting for periods of time, or prolonged very low calorie diets. Research suggests intermittent 'fasting' gives most/all of the benefits with fewer draw backs. I think the semantics of the word fast become very interesting, for example, in...
  12. lulu

    Does any one else on Discuss Cooking practice intermittent fasting?

    It's been so long since i have been here I cannot remember the site protocol on links to recipes and articles, I am sure so e one will correct me if this is not allowed, but this is a nice example. I have only so far made the courgettes (zucchini) recipe from this list but the dipping sole is...
  13. lulu

    Does any one else on Discuss Cooking practice intermittent fasting?

    Certainly most of the advice now is to eat something ( five hundred calories for a woman...) every day, and that to 'get' the beneficial impacts one should eat normally on other days, Anorexia is not to be trifled with, certainly, nor malnutrition. If its a risk for anyone it's certainly a...
  14. lulu

    Does any one else on Discuss Cooking practice intermittent fasting?

    To be fair, intermittent fasting research has been going on for decades. (With benefits supposedly including reduced risk of type two diabetes, types of dementia and longer life expectancy) My comment about its current fashion were tongue in cheek, as so much literature is being produced...
  15. lulu

    Does any one else on Discuss Cooking practice intermittent fasting?

    I used to intermittently fast, but when I got I'll it was driven into me how unhealthy this was. Now it's all the rage my doctors have accepted I am safe to do this again. The most popular form is the two days a week or every other day. I find every other day messes with socialising at...
Back
Top Bottom